Bike advocate Michael Bluejay , who spoke in favor of bike lanes at Longtime cycling advocate Michael Bluejay pedaled a tricycle with a makeshift drum set Raul Alvarez voted for car-free bike lanes. Bike advocate Michael Bluejay made a detailed presentation to council before the Radio Waves. Also, two members of the station's community board resigned.
Michael Bluejay and Larry Beckham both turned in their resignations Gore vs. Bush vs. Nader vs. Ventura vs. Hernandez vs. Simone, approximately. Now gaining this valuable communication knowledge is not as easy as it appears. There are dozens of issues to sort out. What should I talk about? Should I start a blog? Hundreds of websites offer free web marketing advice, of course. But which sources should you trust?
How do you separate the sites with solid, easy-to-follow advice from those that waste your time? And it works. The search engines generally point you to excellent websites. What do you find? Well, the second or third ranked site for that search is WebsiteHelpers. So who is this Bluejay guy and why is he ranked so high? Here are some examples:. Now the competition to rank high in these categories is tremendous.
Now Michael has been quoted in all sorts of mainstream news outlets such as Forbes and Newsweek. But I contacted him by email and asked if he would agree to be interviewed by a small-time blogazine serving telecom professionals.
So here we go. Michael Bluejay: Thank you for the kind words. Yes, I continue to believe that making a website compelling is the quickest way to the top of the SERPs [search engine results pages]. But focusing on quality apparently paid off. Focusing on the customer still works for retail businesses.
And if your competitors are doing a better job than you are, then why should you outrank them? Meta tags are the last thing a developer should be worried about. That means minimizing the clicks it takes someone to get what they came for. Examples of how to do it wrong abound.
Right now in-page interstitials are all the rage, like a box asking you to sign up for a newsletter, or asking you to take a survey. Why make the visitor click? Nowadays many shops have figured this out and they keep you in the same page, which benefits the shopper.
There are a number of things I was doing a decade ago that are becoming commonplace now, which is a kind of validation, I guess. Well, whom am I answering this for? My experience is that people who chase the money tend to make less money.
You focus on your customers, or your readers, and the money will follow. Which brand is best? How soon should you recharge batteries? All your questions answered here. As high as 1 in Google for "types of batteries". The most popular guide to bike safety around. Published as a cover story in Car Busters and Australian Cyclist magazines, translated by fans into several languages, and reprinted widely around the world.
As high as 1 in Google for "bicycle safety". I actually hope you don't fly, because flying causes climate change, but this website is how I can get your attention on that subject. If you're going to fly anyway, this site will give you the lowdown on exactly how to find cheap airfare on the Internet. As high as 5 in Google for "cheapest airfare". Compelling reasons for going vegetarian, and resources to help you get started. I've been vegetarian for over 25 years, and it was one of the best decisions I ever made.
As high as 2 in Google for "be vegetarian". The topic gets my special treatment, meaning it's packed with useful information and tools not available anywhere else, explained in a way that's easy to understand. As high as 1 in Google for "blackjack lessons" and "list of vegas casinos", and 3 for "vegas tips".
The former is a guide to biking for transportation in Austin, Texas, and won a Best of Austin award from the Austin Chronicle. I sold the latter site in June , but the new owner kept much of my content it's mine if I'm in the byline , including the "Bicycling Wastes Gas? As high as 1 in Google for "texas bicycle laws" and "special bicycles". How to get your site to the top of Google, how to keep spambots from stealing email addresses off your web pages, putting video on your site, and lots more.
If you have a website, something on here will be helpful to you. The 3 ranking for my former band, King Cheese , in an Austin Chronicle music poll—as well as the time King Coffey from the Butthole Surfers sat in with us.
The activist work I've done for the environment, housing co-ops, community radio, and especially my anti-cult work. Finishing my two running marathons Bicycling across Texas and Louisiana. Learning Japanese and climbing Mt. Creating what I consider to be the most difficult tongue-twister in the English language: "Rare real rear wheel.
My activities Websites. See above. I play piano and guitar, and used to be in some local bands, including the popular King Cheese. I was thrilled when King Coffey from the Butthole Surfers sat in with us.
I've never gotten around to recording much of my music, but here's one song. My luckiest musical moment was playing onstage at a sold-out show with Ben Folds Five. I launched the first and only major effort to expose the cult I was born into, Aesthetic Realism. I hope to start a new website to make it easier for people to give to nonprofits. I run BicycleSafe. My article on How to Not Get Hit By Cars has been the cover story on multiple magazines and has been translated into several languages.
I trap stray cats in my neighborhood and take them in to be spayed and neutered. Previous projects: Guardian for my neighbor. My year-old next-door neighbor never married and never had any kids, so he outlived all his family and most of his friends.
I became his guardian so I could arrange in-home care so he wouldn't have to go to a nursing home since he strongly didn't want to go there. Student housing co-op. On the board of directors, and lots of volunteer work for ICC. Co-op grocery store. Various projects, including analyzing survey data, for Wheatsville. I still handle the web hosting of Wheatsville. Nursing home. I played piano on Christmas at the local nursing home, often with my friends like April Porter or Laura Freeman.
I worked on campaigns to get cars out of bike lanes and to oppose mandatory helmet laws. I hosted a minute radio show about bicycling. Precinct Delegate. Earth First! I was proud to be an activist in this pioneering environmental group back in the day. In college I did the typesetting for this alternative newspaper. Though short-lived, the paper was very popular and of very high quality, and I am very proud to have been a part of it.
After that, I typeset its successor, The Other Texan.
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